Hello,
I recently took my ARF Datejust into a local watchsmith to have a Sellita swapped in because the A2824 it came with stopped working correctly. He switched the movement and everything seemed to be fine until I noticed that a couple of the hour markers have been scratched, the hands have been smudged, and to top it off it now has some moisture inside that is fogging up the crystal periodically.
He offered to repaint the markers and clean the hands but I'm not going to take it back there. As it's obvious he is too sloppy and this is the first rep I ever purchased and is my favorite in the collection.
My question is what would be the best recommendation for how to proceed with getting it back to the way it was? Is it possible to have the markers repainted and hands cleaned or is it easier to just purchase a new dial?
Photos are below:
**Also I know the datewheel is terrible, its what came stock on the Sellita and I plan to have that switched out for the original ARF DW once I get this repair underway.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I recently took my ARF Datejust into a local watchsmith to have a Sellita swapped in because the A2824 it came with stopped working correctly. He switched the movement and everything seemed to be fine until I noticed that a couple of the hour markers have been scratched, the hands have been smudged, and to top it off it now has some moisture inside that is fogging up the crystal periodically.
He offered to repaint the markers and clean the hands but I'm not going to take it back there. As it's obvious he is too sloppy and this is the first rep I ever purchased and is my favorite in the collection.
My question is what would be the best recommendation for how to proceed with getting it back to the way it was? Is it possible to have the markers repainted and hands cleaned or is it easier to just purchase a new dial?
Photos are below:
**Also I know the datewheel is terrible, its what came stock on the Sellita and I plan to have that switched out for the original ARF DW once I get this repair underway.
Thanks in advance for any advice.